Joe referenced the Uvalde, Texas shooting while signing police reform executive order.
QUICK FACTS:
- President Joe Biden said he doesn’t believe the Second Amendment rights are absolute during an executive order signing earlier in the week, according to The Washington Examiner.
- Biden addressed reporters by referencing the tragedy in Uvalde, Texas, where a school shooting claimed the lives of 19 students and two teachers.
- “The Second Amendment’s not absolute,” he stated before going on to justify his remarks by saying “you couldn’t own a cannon” at the time the Second Amendment was created.
- The president called on the Senate to confirm his nominee to run the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, as part of the solution to gun violence. “To state the obvious: I’m sick and tired of what’s going on,” Biden said.
PRESIDENT & FIRST LADY’S COMMENTS ON THE SCHOOL SHOOTING:
- “The sudden, senseless massacre in an elementary school, little children and their teachers, Eva and Irma,” first lady Jill Biden said, “let us pray that God cradles those broken families in the palm of his hand. But let us also pray to use the will and courage God gives each of us to act united with common sense to protect our children.”
- “Why are we willing to live with this carnage?” Biden asked. “Why do we keep letting this happen? Where in God’s name is our backbone to have the courage to deal with it and stand up to the lobbies? It’s time to turn this pain into action.”
BACKGROUND:
- Biden and other progressives have used the aftermath of the tragic killing of 21 in Texas to demand that guns be taken out of the hands of private citizens.
- Vice President Kamala Harris was no exception, saying “Enough is enough,” while introducing Biden for the order signing. The vice president emphasized the administration’s “courage” to take on the “gun lobby.”
- Texas Democrat gubernatorial candidate Robert Francis O’Rourke approached the stage at Gov. Gregg Abbott’s press conference on the shooting, interrupting the meeting and blaming Abbott for the shooting. O’Rourke’s move was called a “disgraceful” and politically motivated disruption of the solemn occasion.
- Little has been said about the perpetrator of the crime—18-year-old Salvador Ramos—or what prompted the shooting, with the political focus remaining on the tools used to both do the killing and stop the shooter.
